And I hate to break the news to you, but we're there killing tens of thousands of Iraqis too. Considering in a lot of cases it's the same groups Saddam had to put up with, I'm failing to see the moral difference.
We're killing al-Qaeda terrorists who have arrived to kill Americans (and Muslims, I might add) in Iraq. Hussein killed Kurds because of their ethnicity. Huge moral difference if you ask me. Hussein was a terrorist who had WMD to kill thousands of Kurds. Now whether or not he shipped them out to Syria before the US invasion is a different debate.
Also, when talking about genocide, we have to remember that hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, were killed by the economic sanctions we put in place after Kuwait, according to some organizations.
If Saddam wasn't evil, he wouldn't have invaded Kuwait and forced the economic sanctions on his country. He didn't care about his country's people. Of course, Saddam's oil-for-food program was corrupt, thanks in part to the UN's Kofi Annan, who profited from the deal. (But I think *most* of the UN is full of corruption, but that's a different story.)
Saddam gassed the Kurds and killed tens of thousands of his own country's people. That's just wrong and evil. And a liberalized country is not always a good thing. A country whose people enjoy liberty is a completely different thing. And stating that Saddam kept the country more free than most other countries in the region is like saying dark brown isn't quite as dark as black. Israel is the exception, which somehow manages to not kill its own and maintains a certain level of peace even with the terrorist-led Palestinians next door.
You don't have a right NOT to be offended. People need to get over themselves and the government needs to keep its hands out of where it doesn't belong.
Including the parts of Leviticus that say grasshoppers only have 4 legs, bats are birds and rabbits chew the cud? I'm impressed.
Easy. Grasshoppers have six legs. Four they can walk on and two large legs they hop on.
Now do rabbits chew cud? Absolutely. Rabbits colons create fiber-rich "pellets" our of their own feces that they eat to help digest their vegetarian diet.
Bats aren't birds? That's man's opinion. Both have arms that stretch into fingers/wings. Both are covered - one in fur, one in feathers. But one is classed differently according to scientists. But the word "birds" comes from the Hebrew "'owph", meaning "to cover or to fly". So the Hebrew word is used to signify flying, winged things. I would think that flying dinosaurs would have been included in this list.
Yah, cos men have never been greedy, adulterous, money-lovers until just recently.
You're right. Men have always been this way since the original sin. The Lord couldn't find but six people to save during the flood. Many were offered safety and they laughed and refused.
It's the combination of all of the things I mentioned, not just the greedy, adulterous items that makes it. Israel becoming a nation again after 1900 years. Jerusalem being the burdensome stone (think Palestinians and Israelis). China upping it's military (the Bible speaks of a 200 million man army from the east in the last days), Soviet - Iran relations, increasing intensity and number of natural disasters. Nothing is prophetically left before the rapture and the tribulation.
Which part of the Roman Empire corresponds to Norway? How about Ireland?
Ireland's already in according to this Wikipedia page. Finland and Sweden are already in. And the EU isn't done building yet. Norway has applied twice before but has been rejected.
Because Israel has once again become a nation. I believe Israel is God's timepiece. After the Romans ran out the Jews around 60 AD, the nation ceased to exist as a nation until about 60 years ago.
I'll jump in just for the sake of defending a man of the faith...and I think the grandparent is grown up.
If you'd read the news and read the Bible, you'd understand better than we are in the midst of prophetic events forecast thousands of years ago. Read Daniel for the whole revived Roman Empire piece that corresponds to the EU today. Read Matthew to get the signs of the end predicted by Christ. Earthquakes in diverse places, seas and waves roaring and men's hearts failing them from fear. When these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draws near. 2 Thesselonians says that in the end days men will be lovers of money, greedy, adulterous, losing natural affection, etc., etc., etc.
Many think that since they don't believe in hell it doesn't exist. But I'd like to hold an optimistic view that all will come to Christ and be saved. For He is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except by Him. (And, as awful as it is for many that subscribe to other faiths or no faith at all, millions may perish one day soon).
I believe the Lord created all living things. I have worked on so-called contradictions on the Bible from that Skeptics Annotated Bible site and have successfully debunked all that I have studied. Therefore, the Bible being inerrant in my belief, the Lord created the universe and all life on earth. And continues to do so to this day.
To balance out the environmentalists point of view, please note that the SE United States temperature has increased approximately 1 degree F over the last 100 years - and most of that was before the 1940's.
It's very possible we are coming out of a mini ice age and not affecting the global weather patterns by our emissions that the media reports (speculatively, I might add). I believe science should provide definitive proof that man-made emissions are causing global warming and it's not a cyclical earth pattern or sun spots before we force governments and corporations to spend money on what are almost always costly solutions to reduce greenhouse gas. If you think Wal-Mart is evil from running small Mom & Pop shops out of town, wait until the environmentalists have their way and force cuts in corporate employment to pay for the additional regulations. Or better yet, get ready to pay more for products you buy every day because the environmentally-friendly (and most often liberal) media has shoved the green movement down our throats for so long and corporations that do not lay off people are forced to raise prices to fit the new eco-model. Mr. Bush has been smart to not sign the Kyoto protocol as it could damage the economy - one that is now returning well since its downturn in November, 2000, despite the huge increase in petroleum prices.
You would be right, except the facts are there is overwhelming evidence that global warming is occuring.
But you don't know if it's man-made or not. I call BS on the whole human-causing variety of global warming. For all we know it's a cyclical trend.
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I don't see any reason for government funding of NASA. I'd rather the government cut spending and lower my taxes (and I'm speaking to both democrats and republicans here - especially you, Mr. Bush). Federal spending has skyrocketed during my lifetime and I'd like the government to go back to basics - protect my freedom. Most any program beyond that - especially in the realm of space exploration, the arts, welfare and other communis^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H social programs - aren't part of the government's responsibility.
Everything that I have read uses the following scenario:
Eggs are either taken from the woman or from the donor and introduced to the sperm. The eggs are then observed for x number of hours to see which ones fertilize. Those eggs are then placed in the uterus. Hence the "side-effect" of fertility treatments are multiple births. Nothing was ever said about discarding fertilized eggs. Then again, in this age of deception and half-truths, I imagine some of that does take place.
I cannot speak for the parent poster, but I'm not for destruction of any embryos.
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Co 6:9-10)
Dictionary.com has the word "homosexual" as "Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex" and "a homosexual person; a gay man or a lesbian."
Gays have the same right to marry as heterosexuals - they can marry someone of the opposite sex. Marrying someone of the same sex is a special right.
Until President Bush did away with the so-called Marriage Penalty, married couples paid more in tax than they do now. I'd talk with some Democratic leaders and ask why they didn't abolish the marriage penalty when they had the chance.
I do not live under the Law of Moses - I am saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Therefore, my guidelines for living are outlined in the New Testament:
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Co 6:9-10)
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature." (Ro 1:26)
And the Catholic church accepts prayer to Mary as an intercessary for us to God, which is forbidden in the Bible (the whole thing about praying to the dead , that is). There are some things in the Catholic church that I don't think are Biblical as with other Christian denominations, most of which are not differences in steps to salvation, thankfully. What the Pope says, or said, isn't always the truth.
Respectfully, our job is to make sure that we get somebody better then Bush elected. I don't care if that somebody is a Republican or a Democrat -- as long as they aren't a religious-right neo-con
I was at EB Games earlier today and one of the customers there asked the dude behind the counter if they had sold out of PSPs. The guy said no they still had plenty.
You see it from man's logical perspective. I don't. That same human perspective says that there could not have been a world-wide flood or that God even exists for that matter. It's a belief not always backed up by evidence. And I do believe the Bible is the literal Word of God - written by men. So I guess I scare you, too!:)
Regarding the virgin Mary thing, why don't you do some research yourself to see what the word meant? People today quickly take a documentary as fact and don't make a point of checking facts (of course news sources do this too (ahem...Dan Rather).
I hope you'll maybe take the time one day to get a commentary and read through at least parts of the New Testament. It's a beautiful story of one person who died to save the world. And He died for you, me and everyone that ever lived and ever will live.
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Wow. Slashdot isn't as full of Christian haters as it was when I left a few years back. I might have to start investing more time here.
The environmentalists are getting shut down.
Can we drill in ANWR now???
And I hate to break the news to you, but we're there killing tens of thousands of Iraqis too. Considering in a lot of cases it's the same groups Saddam had to put up with, I'm failing to see the moral difference.
We're killing al-Qaeda terrorists who have arrived to kill Americans (and Muslims, I might add) in Iraq. Hussein killed Kurds because of their ethnicity. Huge moral difference if you ask me. Hussein was a terrorist who had WMD to kill thousands of Kurds. Now whether or not he shipped them out to Syria before the US invasion is a different debate.
Also, when talking about genocide, we have to remember that hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, were killed by the economic sanctions we put in place after Kuwait, according to some organizations.
If Saddam wasn't evil, he wouldn't have invaded Kuwait and forced the economic sanctions on his country. He didn't care about his country's people. Of course, Saddam's oil-for-food program was corrupt, thanks in part to the UN's Kofi Annan, who profited from the deal. (But I think *most* of the UN is full of corruption, but that's a different story.)
Saddam gassed the Kurds and killed tens of thousands of his own country's people. That's just wrong and evil. And a liberalized country is not always a good thing. A country whose people enjoy liberty is a completely different thing. And stating that Saddam kept the country more free than most other countries in the region is like saying dark brown isn't quite as dark as black. Israel is the exception, which somehow manages to not kill its own and maintains a certain level of peace even with the terrorist-led Palestinians next door.
did it become the government's job to provide subsidized broadband access to all?
If you can't afford it, don't get it.
You don't have a right NOT to be offended. People need to get over themselves and the government needs to keep its hands out of where it doesn't belong.
I've read reports that the sun is getting warmer and is causing the global warming.
So you have the ability to murder, and that's okay, even though in His book he says, "thou shall not kill"?
Including the parts of Leviticus that say grasshoppers only have 4 legs, bats are birds and rabbits chew the cud? I'm impressed.
Easy. Grasshoppers have six legs. Four they can walk on and two large legs they hop on.
Now do rabbits chew cud? Absolutely. Rabbits colons create fiber-rich "pellets" our of their own feces that they eat to help digest their vegetarian diet.
Bats aren't birds? That's man's opinion. Both have arms that stretch into fingers/wings. Both are covered - one in fur, one in feathers. But one is classed differently according to scientists. But the word "birds" comes from the Hebrew "'owph", meaning "to cover or to fly". So the Hebrew word is used to signify flying, winged things. I would think that flying dinosaurs would have been included in this list.
Yah, cos men have never been greedy, adulterous, money-lovers until just recently.
You're right. Men have always been this way since the original sin. The Lord couldn't find but six people to save during the flood. Many were offered safety and they laughed and refused.
It's the combination of all of the things I mentioned, not just the greedy, adulterous items that makes it. Israel becoming a nation again after 1900 years. Jerusalem being the burdensome stone (think Palestinians and Israelis). China upping it's military (the Bible speaks of a 200 million man army from the east in the last days), Soviet - Iran relations, increasing intensity and number of natural disasters. Nothing is prophetically left before the rapture and the tribulation.
Which part of the Roman Empire corresponds to Norway? How about Ireland?
Ireland's already in according to this Wikipedia page. Finland and Sweden are already in. And the EU isn't done building yet. Norway has applied twice before but has been rejected.
Because Israel has once again become a nation. I believe Israel is God's timepiece. After the Romans ran out the Jews around 60 AD, the nation ceased to exist as a nation until about 60 years ago.
No we weren't. Get used to it. And Grow Up.
I'll jump in just for the sake of defending a man of the faith...and I think the grandparent is grown up.
If you'd read the news and read the Bible, you'd understand better than we are in the midst of prophetic events forecast thousands of years ago. Read Daniel for the whole revived Roman Empire piece that corresponds to the EU today. Read Matthew to get the signs of the end predicted by Christ. Earthquakes in diverse places, seas and waves roaring and men's hearts failing them from fear. When these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draws near. 2 Thesselonians says that in the end days men will be lovers of money, greedy, adulterous, losing natural affection, etc., etc., etc.
Many think that since they don't believe in hell it doesn't exist. But I'd like to hold an optimistic view that all will come to Christ and be saved. For He is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except by Him. (And, as awful as it is for many that subscribe to other faiths or no faith at all, millions may perish one day soon).
I believe the Lord created all living things. I have worked on so-called contradictions on the Bible from that Skeptics Annotated Bible site and have successfully debunked all that I have studied. Therefore, the Bible being inerrant in my belief, the Lord created the universe and all life on earth. And continues to do so to this day.
To balance out the environmentalists point of view, please note that the SE United States temperature has increased approximately 1 degree F over the last 100 years - and most of that was before the 1940's.
It's very possible we are coming out of a mini ice age and not affecting the global weather patterns by our emissions that the media reports (speculatively, I might add). I believe science should provide definitive proof that man-made emissions are causing global warming and it's not a cyclical earth pattern or sun spots before we force governments and corporations to spend money on what are almost always costly solutions to reduce greenhouse gas. If you think Wal-Mart is evil from running small Mom & Pop shops out of town, wait until the environmentalists have their way and force cuts in corporate employment to pay for the additional regulations. Or better yet, get ready to pay more for products you buy every day because the environmentally-friendly (and most often liberal) media has shoved the green movement down our throats for so long and corporations that do not lay off people are forced to raise prices to fit the new eco-model. Mr. Bush has been smart to not sign the Kyoto protocol as it could damage the economy - one that is now returning well since its downturn in November, 2000, despite the huge increase in petroleum prices.
You would be right, except the facts are there is overwhelming evidence that global warming is occuring.
But you don't know if it's man-made or not. I call BS on the whole human-causing variety of global warming. For all we know it's a cyclical trend.
I don't see any reason for government funding of NASA. I'd rather the government cut spending and lower my taxes (and I'm speaking to both democrats and republicans here - especially you, Mr. Bush). Federal spending has skyrocketed during my lifetime and I'd like the government to go back to basics - protect my freedom. Most any program beyond that - especially in the realm of space exploration, the arts, welfare and other communis^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H social programs - aren't part of the government's responsibility.
Everything that I have read uses the following scenario:
Eggs are either taken from the woman or from the donor and introduced to the sperm. The eggs are then observed for x number of hours to see which ones fertilize. Those eggs are then placed in the uterus. Hence the "side-effect" of fertility treatments are multiple births. Nothing was ever said about discarding fertilized eggs. Then again, in this age of deception and half-truths, I imagine some of that does take place.
I cannot speak for the parent poster, but I'm not for destruction of any embryos.
as separation of church and state. The US government cannot promote and/or establish a religion. That's it.
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Co 6:9-10)
Dictionary.com has the word "homosexual" as "Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex" and "a homosexual person; a gay man or a lesbian."
I think you're drawing straws.
Gays have the same right to marry as heterosexuals - they can marry someone of the opposite sex. Marrying someone of the same sex is a special right.
Until President Bush did away with the so-called Marriage Penalty, married couples paid more in tax than they do now. I'd talk with some Democratic leaders and ask why they didn't abolish the marriage penalty when they had the chance.
I do not live under the Law of Moses - I am saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Therefore, my guidelines for living are outlined in the New Testament:
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Co 6:9-10)
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature." (Ro 1:26)
And the Catholic church accepts prayer to Mary as an intercessary for us to God, which is forbidden in the Bible (the whole thing about praying to the dead , that is). There are some things in the Catholic church that I don't think are Biblical as with other Christian denominations, most of which are not differences in steps to salvation, thankfully. What the Pope says, or said, isn't always the truth.
Respectfully, our job is to make sure that we get somebody better then Bush elected. I don't care if that somebody is a Republican or a Democrat -- as long as they aren't a religious-right neo-con
Do you think GWB is a religious-right neo-con?
I was at EB Games earlier today and one of the customers there asked the dude behind the counter if they had sold out of PSPs. The guy said no they still had plenty.
You see it from man's logical perspective. I don't. That same human perspective says that there could not have been a world-wide flood or that God even exists for that matter. It's a belief not always backed up by evidence. And I do believe the Bible is the literal Word of God - written by men. So I guess I scare you, too! :)
Regarding the virgin Mary thing, why don't you do some research yourself to see what the word meant? People today quickly take a documentary as fact and don't make a point of checking facts (of course news sources do this too (ahem...Dan Rather).
I hope you'll maybe take the time one day to get a commentary and read through at least parts of the New Testament. It's a beautiful story of one person who died to save the world. And He died for you, me and everyone that ever lived and ever will live.